Georgia Virtual School, Jamie Sachs, Program Coordinator
Qualities of Teachers
Compassionate
Work with minimal supervision
Patient
Sense of Humor
Risk-taker, willing to experiment
Content knowledge
Application - How do you identify these people?
What programs do you use on a regular basis and how do you use them?
List 3 websites that you used in your classroom instruction and how do you use them?
Interview - conducted on Elluminate
Inteview
What is the most difficult concept in the curriculum you teach? What do you do to mhelp students master this concept?
Describe the actions you tiik to improve your abilities or knowledge in your last position.
What's the best thing that ever happened to you in education?
Training
Ten week training course - analogous to our pedagogy training; lots of scenarios with feedback; lesson evaluation and creation; developing your online voice; lead an Elluminate session
Practice Course - platform training
Teacher Forum
Student Teaching - they take over at the end of the course they are working in
Full year of supervised teaching with a coach (paid position, interdisciplinary, support, professional development)
Required Professional Development
Teacher Support
24/7 Technical Supprt
Manual
Limit enrollment based on ability of teacher
Teacher Copy Center
Automated administrative tasks to take pressure off teachers
Professional Development
Twice-yearly Mandatory Retreat (total of 3 days)
Webinars - One-hour sessions, 10 gives you one Professioinal Learning Unit
Coffee Talk - kind of a chat room on announced topic
Timely Training - Coaches will do this for "on-time" topics
Evaluations
Pre-conferences
Setting annual goals
Observations with Checklists - Department chairs observe on a rotation among classes and teachers
Teacher Evaluation Rubric
Parent and Student Surveys are considered
Online Teaching Endorsement
Three online courses
jssachs@doe.k12.ga.us
Sue Steiner - consultant for Kiel eSchool
Modeled basically on Florida Virtual School
Develop a profile of successful online teachers to give to people who are seeking teachers
Attend a Florida Virtual School Course Development Workshop
Webinar Sources
FLVS
NACOL
eLern
Do we want to work on a handbook for online teachers? SharePoint Site?
Do we want to get into the business of searching for teacher candidates? Put links on website?
The Virtual Observation
Qualities of Teachers
- Compassionate
- Work with minimal supervision
- Patient
- Sense of Humor
- Risk-taker, willing to experiment
- Content knowledge
Application - How do you identify these people?- What programs do you use on a regular basis and how do you use them?
- List 3 websites that you used in your classroom instruction and how do you use them?
Interview - conducted on ElluminateInteview
- What is the most difficult concept in the curriculum you teach? What do you do to mhelp students master this concept?
- Describe the actions you tiik to improve your abilities or knowledge in your last position.
- What's the best thing that ever happened to you in education?
Training- Ten week training course - analogous to our pedagogy training; lots of scenarios with feedback; lesson evaluation and creation; developing your online voice; lead an Elluminate session
- Practice Course - platform training
- Teacher Forum
- Student Teaching - they take over at the end of the course they are working in
- Full year of supervised teaching with a coach (paid position, interdisciplinary, support, professional development)
- Required Professional Development
Teacher Support- 24/7 Technical Supprt
- Manual
- Limit enrollment based on ability of teacher
- Teacher Copy Center
- Automated administrative tasks to take pressure off teachers
Professional Development- Twice-yearly Mandatory Retreat (total of 3 days)
- Webinars - One-hour sessions, 10 gives you one Professioinal Learning Unit
- Coffee Talk - kind of a chat room on announced topic
- Timely Training - Coaches will do this for "on-time" topics
Evaluations- Pre-conferences
- Setting annual goals
- Observations with Checklists - Department chairs observe on a rotation among classes and teachers
- Teacher Evaluation Rubric
- Parent and Student Surveys are considered
Online Teaching Endorsement- Three online courses
jssachs@doe.k12.ga.usSue Steiner - consultant for Kiel eSchool
Modeled basically on Florida Virtual School
Develop a profile of successful online teachers to give to people who are seeking teachers
Attend a Florida Virtual School Course Development Workshop
Webinar Sources
- FLVS
- NACOL
- eLern
Do we want to work on a handbook for online teachers? SharePoint Site?Do we want to get into the business of searching for teacher candidates? Put links on website?
The Virtual Observation